Word: walke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Senator Taft preferred to walk out alone. Their civics lesson over, the nuns did likewise...
...having an editorial policy forced the Service News to walk a tight-rope carrying a fine silk parasol. Franklin D. Roosevelt '04, president of the Crime in 1904, once said that he'd like to see a straight news sheet in New York City-- one carrying all the news but no editorials. In retrospect, the Service News provided a testing ground for that project, and the test wasn't entirely successful. Practically any newspaperman will admit that complete impartiality is unattainable, and a few instances will illustrate that the Service News, occassionally slipped off its tight-rope...
Horseshoes & Berries. As he came up to the west gate, the President said it had been a fine walk. But now that his early-strolling habits had been discovered, said Harry Truman good-naturedly, he would have to stop the walks. Then he turned into the White House for breakfast...
Mickey Walker, welterweight-&-mid-dleweight -champion -turned-easel-painter, tried his luck as a Broadway actor. The show, Walk Hard, hit the canvas after seven performances. But critics found Walker "believable," applauded his "naturalness." His role: a prizefighter...
...humble colors of rural England. A wonderful epitomizing shot-three French noblemen drinking a battle-health in their saddles-is like the crest of the medieval wave. The mastering action of the battle, however, begins with a prodigious truck-shot of the bannered, advancing French chivalry shifting from a walk to a full gallop, intercut with King Henry's sword, poised for signal, and his archers, bows drawn, waiting for it. The release-an arc of hundreds of arrows speeding with the twang of a gigantic guitar on their victorious way-is one of the most gratifying payoffs...